Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS).

Why this matters here

The FAA/NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System invites pilots and controllers to report near misses and errors without default punishment, on the premise that hidden near misses become public catastrophes. What We Cannot See contrasts that voluntary, non-punitive feedback loop with organizational failures in which partial sight never becomes memory strong enough to change the next launch. The book’s operational question is how industries convert distributed, awkward observations into shared learning before schedule and plan absorb them.